Crowell and Moring

Thursday afternoon The White House announced that President Obama granted clemency to 21 individuals, including a Pensacola woman serving a life sentence.

In 1997, Stephanie Yvette George went to trial in Pensacola on a relatively minor drug charge. But...it was her third offense, so when she was convicted she was sentenced to the mandatory minimum sentence: life in prison. Now, 16 years later, Stephanie received word that she will soon be released from prison.